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A study was conducted to determine the compliance of non\u2010<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MSM<\/jats:styled-content> donors with such criteria and examine its implications on blood safety.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Chinese donors who have just donated blood at blood donor centres in Hong Kong were recruited. Based on the contents of the routinely administered predonation Health Screening Questionnaires, participants were requested to complete a survey to assess their practice of deferrable risk behaviours and lifestyle encounters, using tablet computers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Over an 8\u2010week period in mid\u20102016, 1614 donors (male\u2010to\u2010female ratio 1\u00b723) had enrolled in the survey, accounting for 40% of donors giving blood on the survey days. The proportion of respondents who gave blood despite having deferrable <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">HIV<\/jats:styled-content> risk was 5%: <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MSM<\/jats:styled-content> 1\u00b72% (of the male donors); non\u2010<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MSM<\/jats:styled-content> risk behaviours 2\u00b76%; risky lifestyle encounters 2\u00b71%. If inconsistent declaration and suspected risk behaviours were included, the total non\u2010compliance rate became 10\u00b78%. Male donors had a higher prevalence of deferrable behavioural risk, even after excluding <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MSM<\/jats:styled-content>. Unawareness and non\u2010acceptability were main reasons for non\u2010compliance.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The non\u2010compliance rate of donors to deferral was high, although the ultimate infection risk might be small in the presence of universal screening. 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